“At 109, Slave’s Daughter Revels In Historic Vote”
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November 5, 2008, 6:27 pm
Filed under: Politics (Eww...), Reflections on Others | Tags: 109 years old, Amanda Jones, Barack Obama, first black president, NPR, Obama, slave daughter, slavery, vote
Filed under: Politics (Eww...), Reflections on Others | Tags: 109 years old, Amanda Jones, Barack Obama, first black president, NPR, Obama, slave daughter, slavery, vote
No matter how you voted, I think this article is a beautiful story for not only black Americans but all of us.
“Along a rural highway in central Texas sits a small white house with some cows grazing out back and a wheelchair ramp leading to the front screen door. Inside that house lives Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a slave. No one in her family, least of all Jones, thought she would live long enough to vote for the man who is to become the first black president…[more]“
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Good article.
Comment by Tim November 6, 2008 @ 4:26 pmAppreciated this line:
“Jones is the living link between the time when black men were owned as property and the time when a black man has been elected president of the United States.”
In speaking of a slave’s daughter, the very last black slave in the United States, was Sylvester Magee. He lived to be 130 years old and he does not know how to read and he was born in a place that does not exist anymore, called Carpet, North Carolina.
Comment by V.E.G. May 6, 2011 @ 4:22 pm